Music

Peter Tork, who sang as well as played bass and keyboard for the 1960s rock quartet marketed as the American answer to The Beatles, dies a decade after being diagnosed with a rare cancer of the salivary glands.

The bass player of one of the world's most popular bands performs handstands across the stage to entertain the crowd after a power outage temporarily cuts the sound system midway through the second song.

In his first interview since being released from immigration custody, Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage says he did not "just come out and say" that he was British because he did not want to get deported.

After three decades in NSW, Byron Bay's Bluesfest could be on the move with its boss claiming new State Government guidelines to safeguard against drug-related deaths jeopardises its financial viability.

Singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke says she is "dying with excitement" after winning over judges and the public to beat nine other Australian acts and be crowned our entrant into the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.

The embattled musician announced on social media — in a post which has since been deleted — that he plans to travel to Australia "soon", but a senior Labor politician is calling on the Immigration Minister to deny him entry.